It’s been the­o­rized that if every­one who want­ed to lose an extra 10–20 pounds actu­al­ly lost the weight and kept it off, the cumu­la­tive dis­ap­pear­ance of body mass would desta­bi­lize the earth’s orbit and send the plan­et hurtling off into inter­stel­lar space.

Actu­al­ly, that’s not true at all. But in this arti­cle you can dis­cov­er a few things that are true about weight loss.